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Shalom Dov Wolpo , also Sholom Ber Wolpe , ( Hebrew : שלום דוב וולפא ; born February 21, 1948) is a rabbi and an Israeli political activist. Wolpo is the author of more than forty books. He has become associated in recent years with right-wing political causes, and has set up a campaign group— SOS Israel —an organization that runs press and billboard campaigns promoting the belief that surrender of parts of the Land of Israel is prohibited by halacha . Later, in 2008, Wolpo established an additional group opposing land concessions, Our Land of Israel . He also has called for an independent country called the State of Judea be established in the West Bank . Goldberg , he has raised funds to assist families of Jewish terrorists and called for courts to pass a sentence with a death penalty on a number of Israeli politicians such as Ehud Olmert , Ehud Barak , and Tzipi Livni . Or any number of combinations of these names, when transliterated into English. Marzel, Rabbi Wolpo to run for Knesset . Ynetnews 15 December 2008 "Rabbi threatens secession from Israel" .
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The opening as it stood in 2010
Rabbi Shalom Dov Wolpo , also Sholom Ber Wolpe , (born 1948) is a prominent religious author and political activist in Israel and a Chabad-Lubavitch rabbi. He has written more than forty books in Hebrew, some of which are on halachic topics, some which deal with the position of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson , Lubavitcher Rebbe, as the Jewish messiah , some on the Lubavitcher Rebbe's position opposing religious Zionism. He has become associated in recent years with right-wing political causes, and has set up a campaign group - SOS Israel - an organization that runs press and billboard campaigns promoting the belief that surrender of parts of the Land of Israel is prohibited by halacha, and the idea of " Greater Israel ". Or any number of combinations of these names, when transliterated into English.
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Shalom Dov Wolpo Rabbi Shalom Dov Wolpo , also Sholom Ber Wolpe , ( , born 1948) is a rabbi and an Israeli political activist.Wolpo is the author of more than forty books. He has become associated in recent years with right-wing political causes, and has set up a campaign group— SOS Israel —an organization that runs press and billboard campaigns promoting the belief that surrender of parts of the Land of Israel is prohibited by halacha, and the idea of " Greater Israel ". Later, in 2008, Wolpo established an additional group opposing land concessions, Our Land of Israel .He also has called for an independent country called the State of Judea be established in the West Bank . Or any number of combinations of these names, when transliterated into English. Marzel, Rabbi Wolpo to run for Knesset .Ynetnews 15 December 2008 "Rabbi threatens secession from Israel" .
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Rabbi Shalom Dov Wolpo , also Sholom Ber Wolpe , ( , born 1948) is a rabbi and an Israeli political activist. Wolpo is the author of more than forty books. He has become associated in recent years with right-wing political causes, and has set up a campaign group— SOS Israel —an organization that runs press and billboard campaigns promoting the belief that surrender of parts of the Land of Israel is prohibited by halacha . Later, in 2008, Wolpo established an additional group opposing land concessions, Our Land of Israel . He also has called for an independent country called the State of Judea be established in the West Bank . Goldberg , he has raised funds to assist families of Jewish terrorists and called for courts to pass a sentence with a death penalty on a number of Israeli politicians such as Ehud Olmert , Ehud Barak , and Tzipi Livni . Or any number of combinations of these names, when transliterated into English. Marzel, Rabbi Wolpo to run for Knesset . Ynetnews 15 December 2008 "Rabbi threatens secession from Israel" .
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The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023
Israeli rabbi and political activist (born 1948) Rabbi Shalom Dov Wolpo , also Sholom Ber Wolpe , ( , born 1948) is a rabbi and an Israeli political activist. Wolpo is the author of more than forty books. He has become associated in recent years with right-wing political causes, and has set up a campaign group— SOS Israel —an organization that runs press and billboard campaigns promoting the belief that surrender of parts of the Land of Israel is prohibited by halacha . Later, in 2008, Wolpo established an additional group opposing land concessions, Our Land of Israel . He also has called for an independent country called the State of Judea be established in the West Bank . Goldberg , he has raised funds to assist families of Jewish terrorists and called for courts to pass a sentence with a death penalty on a number of Israeli politicians such as Ehud Olmert , Ehud Barak , and Tzipi Livni . Or any number of combinations of these names, when transliterated into English. Marzel, Rabbi Wolpo to run for Knesset . Ynetnews 15 December 2008 "Rabbi threatens secession from Israel" .
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prominent religious author and political activist in israel and a chabad-lubavitch rabbi
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rabbi and an israeli political activist
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